Mentimeter alternative
Mentimeter alternative and alternatives to Mentimeter for quizzes that count toward a grade
Mentimeter is a live audience tool. You build a Menti of slides, the audience joins on their phones with a code, and you run polls, word clouds, Q&A and a Quiz Competition with a top 10 leaderboard. It is very good at what it is for: keeping a room of 30 or 3,000 people answering in the moment. Basic costs $11.99 per presenter per month and Pro $24.99, both billed yearly, and the education versions are $8.99 and $14.99.
What you are looking at
Three quizzes VidQuiz generated from three real YouTube videos. They are saved output, not generated in your browser. Pick one to answer it, and open the source video to check the questions against what is actually said in it.
For your own video, the live demo on the home page runs the real generator once, free, with no account.
This box only holds saved quizzes.
It has not sent your link anywhere. The live demo on the home page does run it: one real generation, free, no account and no card, on the same engine paying customers use.
What VidQuiz reads: paste a YouTube link and VidQuiz watches the video itself. For any other source (Vimeo, an MP4, a screen recording, an upload) paste that video’s transcript and VidQuiz writes the questions from it.
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The short answer
Mentimeter runs live polls and Quiz Competitions that an audience answers on their phones. Basic is $11.99 and Pro $24.99 per presenter per month billed yearly ($8.99 and $14.99 for education), and the Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and Brightspace integration is Enterprise only. The closest live alternatives are Slido, Kahoot, Wayground and AhaSlides. If the session is recorded and you need a graded quiz in an LMS, VidQuiz writes multiple choice questions from a YouTube link and exports QTI 1.2, GIFT, Blackboard, Google Forms CSV, CSV and PDF.
People start looking for a Mentimeter alternative for two different reasons. Some want a cheaper or different live tool: another way to run polls and a quiz in a meeting or a lecture hall. For them the honest shortlist is Slido, Kahoot, Wayground and AhaSlides, and we put the published prices side by side below. Others have a different problem. The live session went well, it was recorded, and now the same material has to become a quiz that counts: a graded check in Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or Brightspace, or a Google Form attached to a training record. Mentimeter lists its Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and D2L Brightspace integration as an Enterprise feature, and it exports results to Excel, not questions as a quiz file.
VidQuiz solves the second problem and only the second. Paste the YouTube link to the recorded session, and it writes multiple choice questions with the correct answer marked, a short explanation and the timestamp each question came from. Then it exports QTI 1.2 for Canvas and Brightspace, a Moodle GIFT file, a Blackboard tab-delimited file, Google Forms CSV, plain CSV or a PDF with the answer key, so the quiz runs inside the system that already keeps the grades.
Mentimeter keeps a live room answering and keeps the quiz inside the presentation. VidQuiz does a narrower job after the room empties: it turns the recording into an LMS-ready quiz file with a timestamp on every question.
Side by side
Mentimeter vs VidQuiz, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are useful tools. Here is where they differ.
| Feature | VidQuiz | Mentimeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price for one presenter or author | A free demo of 3 quizzes, then $49 a month, or $288 a year for Starter | Free plan, then $143.88 a year for Basic or $107.88 for education Basic |
| Live polls, word clouds and Q&A | Not offered | The core product, on every plan |
| Live quiz with a leaderboard | Not offered; the quiz runs in your LMS or a form | Quiz Competition with time-based or fixed points and a top 10 leaderboard |
| Question types | Multiple choice with four options, true or false, and short answer | Select Answer with up to six options, and Type Answer |
| Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and Brightspace | QTI 1.2, GIFT and Blackboard tab-delimited files on every paid plan | LMS integration on Enterprise only |
| Google Forms | Google Forms CSV on every paid plan | No Google Forms export described |
| Writing questions from a session you recorded | The whole set drafted from a YouTube link with the answer marked and an explanation | You write the slides, or the AI assistant drafts from a prompt or an attached file |
| Timestamps | Every question records the moment in the recording it came from | Not applicable |
| Single sign-on for a large organization | Not offered | SSO and SCIM on Enterprise |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each tool for the latest. Trademarks belong to their owners.
At a glance
Mentimeter plans and what each one unlocks for quizzes
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| Plan | Price per presenter | Participants | What matters for a quiz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 a month in the comparison table | Quiz Competition slides and Menti AI; no results export and no slide import |
| Basic | $11.99 a month billed yearly ($143.88), education $8.99 ($107.88); also sold monthly | Unlimited | Export results as image, PDF or Excel; import PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides |
| Pro | $24.99 a month billed yearly ($299.88), education $14.99 ($179.88); no one-month option | Unlimited | Participant names, shared workspace, co-editing, moderated Q&A, Quick Forms |
| Enterprise | Quoted; 10 or more licenses are quoted too | Unlimited | SSO and SCIM, verified participants, and the Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and D2L Brightspace integration |
Read on mentimeter.com/pricing and mentimeter.com/plans/education in October 2026. Prices are shown with a dollar sign and exclude tax. Mentimeter's $0 plan card says unlimited participants once a month while its comparison table says 50 a month, so plan around 50. Mentimeter refunds within 14 days only if you have not used it at a live event. Prices change, so check the vendor page before you budget from this.
At a glance
From a recorded session to a graded quiz in your LMS, step by step in each tool
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| Step | Mentimeter | VidQuiz |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the content in | Type slides, import a PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides deck on Basic, or attach files of up to 25 MB to the AI assistant | Paste the YouTube link to the recorded session |
| Writing the questions | You write Select Answer and Type Answer slides, or ask the AI assistant to draft a Menti | Multiple choice questions are written from the recording itself with the correct answer marked and an explanation |
| Where people answer | On their phones during the live presentation, with a top 10 leaderboard | Wherever you import the file: the LMS quiz, a Google Form or paper |
| Getting scores out | Export results to Excel per question or per voter on Basic and above | The quiz runs in your LMS, so the gradebook records the score |
| Getting it into Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or Brightspace | LMS integration is listed on Enterprise only | Import the QTI 1.2 zip, the GIFT file or the Blackboard tab-delimited file on any paid plan |
| Getting it into Google Forms | Retype the questions | Import the Google Forms CSV |
Mentimeter rows come from its pricing pages and its help center articles on creating a Quiz Competition and on the AI assistant. VidQuiz has no speech recognition of its own: a YouTube link is the one source it reads unaided, and any other recording needs its transcript pasted, up to 60,000 characters.
What is the best alternative to Mentimeter?
It depends on what you would be replacing. If it is the live session, the closest alternatives are Slido for meetings and town halls, Kahoot for a game-show quiz, Wayground for self-paced quizzes and AhaSlides for a slide deck with polls built in. Each is a live engagement tool, and each keeps the answers inside its own dashboard.
If the recording is the source and a graded quiz is what counts, a better alternative writes the questions for you and hands you a file your LMS reads. VidQuiz takes a YouTube link to the session, writes multiple choice questions with the correct answer, an explanation and a timestamp, and exports QTI 1.2, Moodle GIFT, a Blackboard tab-delimited file, Google Forms CSV, plain CSV and a PDF with the answer key.
Many trainers and lecturers keep Mentimeter for the room and give the graded check somewhere else. The two only overlap on asking questions.
How much does Mentimeter cost per year?
Mentimeter Basic costs $11.99 per presenter per month billed yearly, which is $143.88 a year, and Pro costs $24.99, which is $299.88 a year. Education pricing is $8.99 for Basic ($107.88 a year) and $14.99 for Pro ($179.88 a year). Enterprise is quoted, and so is any order of 10 or more licenses.
Two details change the math. Basic is the only plan you can pay month to month; Pro and Enterprise cannot be bought one month at a time. And the 14-day refund applies only if you have not run Mentimeter at a live event yet. The full breakdown, including what a ten-person team pays, is in our Mentimeter pricing article.
Can Mentimeter quizzes go into Canvas or Moodle?
Only on Enterprise. Mentimeter lists LMS integration with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and D2L Brightspace as an Enterprise feature, and Enterprise is priced by quote. On Basic and Pro, what leaves Mentimeter is the results: an Excel export per question or per voter, plus image and PDF exports of the slides.
So a Quiz Competition built on Basic or Pro cannot become a Canvas item bank or a Moodle question bank without retyping it. VidQuiz writes a QTI 1.2 zip that Canvas and Brightspace import, a GIFT file for Moodle and a tab-delimited file for Blackboard, and the LMS then grades the multiple choice items itself.
Is Slido or Mentimeter better?
Slido is better for meetings and town halls where Q&A matters most and the audience sits inside Webex, Teams or Zoom. Mentimeter is better for presentations where the slides and the interaction are one deck, and for lecturers who want a quiz with a leaderboard in the middle of a talk.
Neither is built to produce a graded quiz file afterward. Both are worth their price when the live moment is the product. When the recording of that moment has to become an assessment, that is a separate job, and it is the one VidQuiz does.
Is there a Mentimeter alternative for corporate training?
For the live part of training, yes: Slido, Kahoot 360 and AhaSlides all sell business plans. For proving that people understood the training, a live poll is weak evidence, because nobody can show an auditor a word cloud. What holds up is a quiz in the LMS or a form, with a score per person and a date.
That is where VidQuiz fits. Record the session, paste the link, review the draft questions, and export a QTI, GIFT, Blackboard or Google Forms file. Every question carries the timestamp it came from, so a disputed answer can be checked against the recording in seconds.
When should you stay on Mentimeter?
Stay on Mentimeter if the live room is the point: polls in a keynote, a quiz with a leaderboard in a lecture hall, Q&A that needs moderating. It is very good at that, the free plan is enough to try it, and a quiz generator does not replace any of it.
Add VidQuiz when the session is recorded and the same material needs a graded quiz in the LMS, or when writing thirty questions and their wrong answers is what keeps the quiz from getting built at all. A 45-minute recording becomes a reviewed multiple choice set in a few minutes.
Related pages worth reading next
- Mentimeter pricing, Basic vs Pro vs education works out what one presenter, a department and a ten-person team pay per year.
- Webinar to quiz turns a recorded webinar or live session into a graded multiple choice quiz.
- The corporate training quiz generator builds the check that proves a training session landed.
- The best quiz maker for large groups prices Mentimeter, Kahoot, Slido and others per learner at 500, 2,000 and 5,000 people.
- Importing questions into Canvas walks through the QTI zip for Classic Quizzes, New Quizzes and item banks.
Why people pick VidQuiz
Built around video, end to end
An LMS file on every paid plan
QTI 1.2 for Canvas and Brightspace, GIFT for Moodle, a tab-delimited file for Blackboard and a Google Forms CSV, with no Enterprise contract needed, so the questions land in your question bank as ordinary quiz items.
Written from the recording
Paste the YouTube link to the session you already ran. The questions come from what was actually said, with the correct answer marked and a one line explanation, ready for you to review.
A timestamp on every question
Each question records the moment in the recording it came from, so a disputed answer is settled in seconds and a learner who missed it can be sent back to the right minute.
Quiz Studio
See VidQuiz turn a video into a quiz
Pick a sample or paste your own link, generate the quiz, then answer the questions. Each one is tied to a moment in the video, with the answer and a short explanation.
What you are looking at
Three quizzes VidQuiz generated from three real YouTube videos. They are saved output, not generated in your browser. Pick one to answer it, and open the source video to check the questions against what is actually said in it.
For your own video, the live demo on the home page runs the real generator once, free, with no account.
This box only holds saved quizzes.
It has not sent your link anywhere. The live demo on the home page does run it: one real generation, free, no account and no card, on the same engine paying customers use.
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Mentimeter vs VidQuiz, answered
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